Car-coupling



(No Model.)

R. R. HUNT.

GAR GOUPLING.

No. 828,812. Patented Aug. 4, 1885.

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NVV JV'TORv .attorney NTTED STATES REUBEN It. HUNT, OF LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part ofrLetters Patent No. 323,812, dated August 4, 1885.

. Application tiled November 28, 1884. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, REUBEN R. HUNT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lexington, in the county of Fayette and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Couplings, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to a inode of coupling cars. The object I have in view is to govern the angle of the link and the rise and fall of the pin by suitable means from the sides of the cars, obviatingbthe necessity of passing between them for that purpose.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents an end view of a car with the linkoperating mechanism applied; Fig. 2, the

same, with the pin-operating mechanism applied, and Fig. 3 a sectional view of both the above coupled together.

In the gures, A and A represent the ends of two contiguous cars, and B B the drawheads, constructed in the usual manner, except that in the upper side of one of the draw-heads an additional hole to that for the ordinary pin is made, for the purpose hereinafter set forth.

A represents that end of the car which, in

this instance, carries the link in the drawhead B. n

C represents a box which is secured to the end A. In this box is placed aslid'ing block, D, which has connected to the center of its under side a bar, c. This block is supported by one end of a iat spring, F, and is acted upon on its upper side by the inner ends of two levers, E E, which are pivoted to the end of the car. The bar a passes down through an opening in the upper side of the drawhead, back of the pin, and is intended to act upon the rear end of the link.

Vhen the outer ends of the levers E are raised from either side of the car, the block D is depressed and its bar a depresses the inner end of the link. The outer end of said link is thus made to risev in order to meet and enter the draw-head of the car to be coupled. The operator can readily see how to guide the end ofthe link to properly meet the height of the approaching draw-head. When the hand is removed from the lever, the spring F carries the block D back to its normal position, and the bar a is drawn upward and out of the way.

The end A of a car to be coupled to the one just described is provided with two projecting blocks, H H, through which a shaft, L, passes, and in which it has its bearing. This shaft is in a horizontal position, and is provided at its center and one side with a lever, I, as also at its ends with lever hand-pieces J J. Said shaft is also provided with a pin, i.

An operator, by grasping either of the hand-levers J J, may partially rotate theshaft L and thus cause the outer end of the lever I to rise, and as the coupling-pin K is attached to this outer end, it of course is raised to allow the link from the contiguous car to pass into the draw-head B.

W'hen the hand is removed from the lever J, the spring F immediately reverses the partial rotation of the shaft, and the pin is made to enter the eye of the link.

It will be seen that a single man may readily and easily handle the levers of the approaching cars and raise not only thelink but the pin intended to engage said link.

1. In a car-coupling, a link-operating device consisting of a bar entering the drawhead to the rear of the pin-hole, a movable spring-retained block to which said bar is attached, and a pivoted lever or levers extending toward the sides of a car and operating to depress said block, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. In a car-coupling, a pin-operating device consisting of a shaft extending across the end of a car and carrying a lever or arm, to which the pin is attached, said shaft being provided with hand-pieces for operating it and kept normally in position by a spring, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

REUBEN R. HUNT.

Witnesses:

CHAs. D. Davis, J. J. MCCARTHY. 

